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Opening up to a larger group of students will weaken Harvard's brand. Many of these top institutions are valuable because rich, well-connected people go there, so going there allows one to meet them. There are companies where it is an unspoken rule that they hire only from Harvard, law offices that recruit only from Yale, etc.

MIT has been doing that with a big chunk of its courses for years and yet the value of its degrees have yet to depreciate. The value is in 1. the people you meet there and 2. the value of "MIT" on a piece of paper. The same is true for other elite institutions.

The elderly have a massive hold on the American political system that outweighs the fraction of the population they represent. They are typically consistent voters, and if you go to a polling place, it will likely be an elderly lady or gentleman running it. Given that they represent they vast majority of casualties, putting them at risk is a political non-starter, even if the most logical realpolitik solution.

As I recall, the guy said it was a troll. The PC Police are enough to make people take shitposting seriously. Further examples include stuff like the "okay sign" being a hate symbol.

Forty to sixty percent, though that doesn't say anything about the representativeness of voters or twitter users.

22% of Americans use twitter. Most tweets are from 10% of those people. There are many people who yell and scream so loudly on-line that people believe their numbers to be much greater than they are. It frustrates me when someone takes action because "people on twitter are mad". Decisions are being made based on who has the most active thumbs.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...

.ml is free from a company called freenom, along with .tk, .cf, and a few others.

This assumes your conversion rate from media is the same. It's reasonable to hypothesize that most are significantly more reluctant to spend money in this environment.

The title was actually changed because a bunch of people thought it was sensationalized and sounded too close to a 51% unemployment rate (which isn't, "percentage of people without a job".) See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23706562

I'm pretty sure you know to what it refers and are just trying to make a point/start an argument. "American" is the only demonym of which I'm aware for a resident of the United States of America. Rarely (if ever) does someone require a demonym for residents of two continents, and I don't think I've ever heard someone use "American" to refer to a resident of "the Americas" outside of an irate non-American.

> But, would our reaction be still the same if Guardian's headline said China or Russia did this? Probably not. Perhaps we would even talk about putting new sanctions.

Nope. There are about a billion other reasons both should be sanctioned to the point of embargo, but this isn't one. Nations have been fighting each other for resources for months now. That's to be expected in a high-demand, low-supply environment where each wants to save as many of her citizens as possible, and I wouldn't blame China or Russia for taking similar actions. For instance, I don't really blame China for having restricted exports of PPE because of greater need at home. I'd rather America get her hands on more stuff, but I'd expect any competent government to act in the interests of her citizens and so can't fault China (at least, not for this).

> I think the right move would be allowing other companies to produce enough of it. If that means financially supporting Gilead, let's do that. Then nobody has to take all the stockpile.

This is definitely a good approach, but this drug is pretty hard to make, so I'm not sure another company could just start making it easily [0]. However, Gilead has already been working with partner companies to ramp up production [1], which will allow them to benefit from all the work Gilead has put in to figuring out how to produce it at scale.

[0]: https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-maki...

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/30/gileads-remdesivir-has-s...

Sounds like the Guardian isn't happy its home country got out-bid. Did it expect that America would buy less of a potentially life-saving drug, effectively prioritizing the welfare of foreigners over her own? I'd expect any government to act in such a manner.

> If you don't believe [racism is systemic], you're in the minority now

A majority-held opinion is not a citation. Which systems explicitly favor whites over blacks?

No it doesn't, at least, not as far as I've seen. Do you mean the web version? If so, I'd hardly call that, "as well as it does anywhere."

Someone on a separate thread pointed out this is known as Havel's Greengrocer: the owner of a market feels obligated to display communist propaganda lest he be suspected of disloyalty to the party [0]. This is very similar to all the businesses suddenly issuing letters of support for Black Lives Matter, lest they be suspected of being racist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless#Hav...

Glad to hear that, though I wasn't aware color output now works on windows command. I was under the impression the ansi.sys driver or similar was still necessary for color support.

I'd be pretty happy were I able to run office on linux (apart from 2010 version in wine).

Nahh, I just run hot. I've lived in a shared place where I don't control the thermostat and the person who does was loathe to let it go above 77 degrees. After months on end, I'd still get uncomfortably warm in such a temperature. On the other hand, I can sit comfortably in 55 degrees in short sleeves with wind. I also have very low body fat, so that's not the culprit either. Believe it or not, people have different preferences and optimal temperatures. I just wish everyone would err far to the side of cold: you can always put on a jacket; I can't keep taking clothing off.

Very interesting article. I'd hypothesize that this comes out of the fact that this is rooted in the idea that "the personal is political". This has led to the growing idea that not taking a stand on an issue is supporting the status quo and therefore just as political. Therefore, everyone must "pick a side". This is reflected in the attacks on people who don't condemn political movements, but refuse to support them.

While this isn't directly related to the situation with Scott Alexander, it sets the precedent that everyone is now "fair game".

Wow, screw the new york times. I was recently directed to this site by an HN commenter, and found that there was quite a nice community of smart people who wanted to discuss different ideas and potentially even change their minds. A piece by the new york times covering that would destroy it. And it's irresponsible for a reporter to insist on publishing a name in a situation like this "becAUsE PolIcY".

Your line-ending issue is very easy to fix in git:

`git config --global core.autocrlf true`

That will configure git to checkout files with CRLF endings and change them to plain LF when you commit files.

It's just a typo, and we're all human. Maybe focus on the really interesting research instead?

No, it wouldn't, but I honestly couldn't care less about phones. It makes absolutely no sense to attempt to design a port that is good for both delivering power to tiny devices and also good for transferring forty gigabits per second of data, all while being durable and maintaining a good connection.

Honestly, I hate USB-C. It's flimsy as all get-out. All the USB-C stuff I have seems to maintain a poor connection when moved, and it doesn't feel anywhere near as sturdy as a plain-old USB A. When I'm using a laptop, I want something I can leave plugged in when I pick up and move the computer and not lose connection when jiggled. They should have made something that valued a sturdy, stable connection over slimness.

It's pretty hard to do good public transportation in a place like Houston. I've had forty-mile commutes in the past, and once you get that far out, you get that nasty superlinear expansion of area covered. The closest Houston could ever get is park-and-ride, i.e. re-locating the sea of asphalt, because buses are too dang slow. Not to mention walking is absolute misery due to weather from May to September.

Preferences are almost certainly a factor. I live in Houston, where we don't have zoning, yet it's specifically cited (and I can confirm) that the vast majority of residents live in suburbs. The article itself acknowledges that, "Americans have been running away from dense, vertical design for a century." People don't want to live in small spaces with close neighbors, or at least, I don't. I don't see the appeal of going to a restaurant on foot given that I never (or very seldom) eat out. Same thing for coffee. I don't shop except for occasional online purchases, and never "go shopping" as many are wont to do. Just about the only things I do are go to the office (which was at least partially virtual, even before corona) and occasionally drive to a business function or symphony performance. Living in an urban area simply holds no appeal for me, or at least, I don't see any appeal. While I can't be sure as to everyone's reasons, it appears others may feel similarly.

As an aside, the article refers to "the suburban wine room." I have yet to see someone with a "wine room"; is this commonplace? A regional difference, perhaps? It also refers to "his-and-hers walk-in closets"; I don't know any guy with his own walk-in closet excepting those that live in apartments that came with one.

I found arch to be quite stable on mine, though I didn't use a desktop most of the time. When I did, i3 was by far the fastest, so maybe give that a try.

Is there some ban against linking drm strippers on HN? I've seen countless links to scihub or to paywall bypasses on articles.

I've tried it a few times on my kindle, and it sounds like a nice things to have. However, the screen's refresh rate is crazy low. I'm guessing that can be improved, but that would likely come with a battery life hit. More importantly, good luck scrolling on a webpage where it takes you a second to see how far you've scrolled. Same issue were you to respond to a comment: typing with that sort of latency is absolutely dreadful. E-ink works great for displaying text and is so much better for reading than a screen, but there's definitely some more technological work to be done first.

> it doesn't do ePub

I was able to easily jailbreak mine and it does ePub fine after that. I don't think a home-made device offers me any more freedom than a jailbroken kindle; I can drop to a shell and do all the same things. That said, while I enjoy tinkering, basically the only non-stock things I do are read ePubs and play zork. I'd prefer to save my tinkering for a desktop or laptop and keep a device just for reading books.